Software Group Backs Microsoft Breakup

The software industry's biggest trade group has endorsed
the breakup of Microsoft if the software giant loses its
antitrust case. The 40-page report sent to government
lawyers comes despite Microsoft's active membership in the
Software and Information Industry Association (formerly --
and better known as -- Software Publishers Association).

The group's recommendations are consistent with
"competition principles" articulated in a recent resolution that
reads like a driving map for the antitrust charges against
Microsoft, singling out practices like "vaporware" and
"discriminatory licensing" that work against software
"innovation." MORE>>